Comparison

Quyu vs Memo

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Quyu

This app provides real-time updates on crowds, wait times, and parking for local businesses. Users can contribute updates to improve accuracy and earn rewards. It helps plan your day and discover new places.

Highlights
  • Real-time Qscore updates
  • Crowd and wait time indicators
  • User-submitted place status updates
  • Heatmaps for daily planning
  • Save favorite places
  • Earn points and climb leaderboards
  • Access special offers and rewards
Features
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Built for the intersection of your life and your time, Quyu helps add time to yoour day by providing real-time updates on your favorite places. Check Qscore updates on crowds, wait times, parking and more. Use Quyu’s easy slider features to update the status of nearby places as conditions change throughout the day and night. At its core, Quyu is a marketplace platform that’s community driven primarily by local businesses and consumers. Our “Qscores” allows people the convenience of choosing their best times to shop, eat, or go anywhere or do anything. Quyu is designed to help people find great local businesses as well as helping businesses retain and attract great customers. Also, Quyu gets more accurate as more people use it. Try Quyu today and do busy better! What are you waiting for?! FEATURES: - Scroll through Nearby places to quickly assess places around you. - At a glance, Qscores provide updates on crowds, lines, wait times and more. - Green means go... and red signals trouble. - Move the sliders to provide real-time updates on crowds, lines, wait times, safety and more. - Check the Today tab to see Quyu heatmaps to help plan your day. - Sort places by Categories to customize your searches. - Save your favorite places and see your Recent searches. - Tap on the address of a place to launch your favorite mapping app for directions. - Tap on “Contact” to place a call to the place you want to visit. - Add Comments, Photos and Share places you visit. - Earn points for providing updates on places you visit and climb the Leaderboard as you advance to new levels. - Accept and save Special Offers and Rewards from participating businesses.

About

Memo

Keep important short notes visible on your lock screen and in notifications. Ideal for lists and reminders that need frequent checking without opening an app.

Highlights
  • Add notes to Notification Center
  • View notes from lock screen
  • Organize notes with tags
  • Mark notes as done with strikethrough
  • Share notes as Markdown
  • Save URLs via Share Extension
  • Import line-by-line lists
Features
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See the note you need today the moment you check your phone. Memo is for short notes you look at repeatedly: shopping lists, things to bring, tasks for today, quick checklists, URLs, and small reminders you do not want buried inside a full note app. Select the notes that matter now and keep them available from the lock screen and Notification Center, so you can check them without opening the app and searching through a long list. Use it when a reminder is too heavy and a long note is too easy to forget. A grocery list while you are walking through a store. Things to pack before you leave. A short set of steps you need to follow. A URL you want to keep with the rest of your notes. A few tasks that should stay visible today. What you can do with Memo: - Add selected notes to Notification Center - Check frequently viewed notes from the lock screen - Organize notes with tags such as shopping, work, home, or travel - Mark notes as done with strikethrough — completed notes stay visible but dimmed - Share notes as Markdown with tag headings and checkbox support - Customize up to four floating action buttons for quick access to your most-used actions - Save URLs from Safari and other apps with the Share Extension - Import line-by-line lists from a text file - Move finished notes to the archive - Delete notes you no longer need - Create an iCloud backup and restore it when needed Memo is intentionally simple. It is not trying to replace a full notebook, calendar, or project manager. It works best for the small pieces of information you want to see quickly and repeatedly. If you need to write a long document, use a note app. If you need an alarm at a specific time, use a reminder. If you want a short note to stay close at hand, use Memo. Strikethrough lets you mark notes as done without deleting them. A completed shopping item or finished step stays in the list but appears dimmed, so you always know what is left. When you are done, move the checked items to the archive in one step. When you want to share a set of notes, export them as Markdown. Tags become headings, and notes marked with strikethrough are written as [x] checkboxes. Useful for sending a list to someone else or pasting it into another app. Tags help keep the list manageable as your notes grow. You can separate shopping, errands, work, home, travel, and personal notes, then choose only the items that should appear in Notification Center. Finished items can be archived so your active list stays focused, while older notes remain available when you need them. The Share Extension makes it easy to send a URL or text from another app into Memo. When you find a page, product, recipe, or reference you want to check later, save it with a tag and keep moving. Text import is useful for preparing a list on another device or in another app, then bringing it into Memo as individual notes. For small notes that need to stay visible, not buried, keep them on your lock screen and in Notification Center with Memo.

Screenshots

Quyu4 screens
Memo3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quyu at none against Memo's 1. Quyu also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Memo's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Memo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Quyu asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Quyu against 5.0 for Memo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quyu ships an update every 2 months, Memo every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Quyu versus Memo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuyuMemo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—84.6% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQuyu LLCToshihiko Arai

Customer experience

Quyu

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Memo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral7.7%
Negative7.7%

In-app purchases

None

Quyu

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Memo

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Quyu free?
Quyu is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Memo free?
Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quyu or Memo?
Quyu and Memo are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Quyu or Memo have ads?
Both Quyu and Memo show ads.
Which is updated more often, Quyu or Memo?
Quyu ships an update every 2 months, and Memo every 5 days. Most recently, Quyu was updated on October 15, 2026 and Memo on October 24, 2026.

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